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作者：Shen, Bin; Dong, Ciwei; Minner, Stefan
作者单位：Donghua University; Zhongnan University of Economics & Law; Technical University of Munich
摘要：The phenomenon of copycats is common in a wide range of industries. Recently, to indicate product authenticity and combat copycats, many brand name companies (BNCs) have started selling products through retailers. These BNCs deploy a scalable protocol that is integrated into a permissioned blockchain technology (PBT) platform. We examine how PBT combats copycats in the supply chain and how it benefits BNCs. Although PBT implementation helps novice customers identify product authenticity and th...
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作者：Li, Xue; Cai, Xiaoqiang; Chen, Jian
作者单位：Beijing Foreign Studies University; The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen; Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data; Tsinghua University
摘要：We consider a supply chain consisting of an incumbent national brand manufacturer and a retailer, who wishes to determine the private label encroachment strategy. By investigating the cost-quality trade-off between lower- and higher-quality private labels, we characterize the retailer's optimal encroachment decisions. Intuitively, the retailer would choose to introduce a lower-quality private label when the quality of the national brand is high. However, we find that a higher-quality private l...
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作者：Si, Haijian; Kavadias, Stylianos; Loch, Christoph
作者单位：University of Cambridge
摘要：As innovation is critical in driving growth and competitiveness, companies establish innovation (or new product) portfolio processes to select the right innovation projects that are allocated the necessary resources. These processes have attracted considerable interest from both academics and practice. However, the results of innovation portfolio management processes are widely perceived as unsatisfactory. This study provides a systematic overview of portfolio management approaches and researc...
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作者：Anderson, Edward G.; Lopez, Jose; Parker, Geoffrey G.
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Dartmouth College
摘要：Business platforms have become widespread in business to consumer (B2C) markets and their adoption is on the rise in the business to business (B2B) world. However, our understanding of platform adoption in B2B is less developed than for B2C. In the few cases where B2B platforms have been explicitly examined, it is often assumed that they can be understood using principles developed from the study of B2C platforms. However, the two types of platforms have important differences that often requir...
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作者：De-Arteaga, Maria; Feuerriegel, Stefan; Saar-Tsechansky, Maytal
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; University of Munich
摘要：The extensive adoption of business analytics (BA) has brought financial gains and increased efficiencies. However, these advances have simultaneously drawn attention to rising legal and ethical challenges when BA inform decisions with fairness implications. As a response to these concerns, the emerging study of algorithmic fairness deals with algorithmic outputs that may result in disparate outcomes or other forms of injustices for subgroups of the population, especially those who have been hi...
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作者：Youn, Seokjun; Geismar, H. Neil; Pinedo, Michael
作者单位：University of Arizona; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School; New York University
摘要：This study reviews the research on planning and scheduling in healthcare published in Production and Operations Management (POM) and other prestigious operations management journals over the past 30 years, identifies trending topics, and discusses opportunities for future research. Specifically, we categorize the capacity planning literature into three problem contexts: (a) hospital units and operating rooms, (b) outpatient clinics, and (c) broader healthcare networks. We further classify the ...
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作者：Guo, Xiaolong; Cheng, Lihong; Yu, Yugang
作者单位：Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Science & Technology of China, CAS
摘要：To protect soil quality for sustainable development and raise farmers' incomes, agricultural firms are increasingly developing green and efficient raw materials (GRMs) that can improve crop yields and reduce soil damage compared to TRMs. However, farmers have heterogeneity in both the trust in agricultural information and sustainable development attitudes, leading to underestimation of the value of GRMs. This paper explores the optimal subsidy policy of the government to promote GRMs consideri...
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作者：Yang, Xufeng; Jiao, Wen; Zhang, Juliang; Yan, Hong
作者单位：Beijing Jiaotong University; University of Exeter; Zhejiang Shuren University
摘要：This work explores the admission and capacity allocation for a leasing system with two types of equipment and three kinds of batch demands: elementary specified, premium specified, and unspecified demands. The demands arrive following mutually independent Poisson processes, and the rental duration of equipment follows a negative exponential distribution. The lessor can satisfy partially the specified demands with the required type of equipment and satisfy partially the unspecified demands with...
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作者：Xie, Xiaodan; Aros-Vera, Felipe
作者单位：Procter & Gamble; University System of Ohio; Ohio University
摘要：We map the organized sex trafficking networks (STNs) into a network flow model and develop an interdependent network interdiction model (NIM) to disrupt such networks. Our model considers the interdependence between the information and physical victim networks and reformulates the problem using duality theory. Our NIM provides a clear strategy for interdicting STNs. Namely, it determines when to monitor (i.e., gather information) or arrest the criminals to maximize the impact of the interdicti...
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作者：Abedi, Vahideh Sadat; Berman, Oded; Feinberg, Fred M.; Krass, Dmitry
作者单位：California State University System; California State University Fullerton; University of Toronto; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：New product and service introductions require careful joint planning of production and marketing campaigns. Consequently, they typically utilize multiple information channels to stimulate customer awareness and resultant word-of-mouth (WOM), availing of standard budget allocation tools. By contrast, when enacting strategic allocation decisions-which must align with other management imperatives-dividing expenditures across channels is far more complex. To this end, we formulate a multichannel d...
